Indeed, “Climate change” has been the hot topic for the last couple of weeks. It even surpassed the hubbub around the pandemic the world is experiencing for the past 2 years and counting! Thanks to COP26…the gathering of the “relevant” world leaders to discuss top, pressing issues of the world, the list of which contains […]
Category: STEM
Google honors the father of fiber optics
I found this out “accidentally” today (November 4th) while searching something on the Web, from Google.com landing page. This is what it looked like: As I looked at the binary numbers in their cartoony animation, I see they are:010010110100000101001111 which then translated to text, decimal, and hex are as follows: ASCII Decimal Hex 01001011 K […]
Webfonts…why and how
Why do we even need to deal with webfonts and its various formats? I have enough pretty, cool fonts! The issue isn’t about how many awesome fonts you used when you developed your perfect web page but whether all your users have the same fonts. In all likelihood, they don’t (unless the fonts are ubiquitous)! […]
BACTERIAL GROWTH SIMULATION (Binary Fission)
Here, I present a quick simulation application (runs in the browser) of population growth of bacteria that mutiplies following binary fission reproduction. Basically, it’s the division of a single cell into two or more cell and the regeneration of those parts to separate cells resembling the original. To play the simulation, just navigate to the […]
Games by me—all in one place
This page is a single, nifty starting point for various games I developed for desktop and mobile for intellectual curiousity and fun. They are all free, and ad-free. No cookies. No gimmicks. These will run on any modern smartphone, tablet, PC…anything that can run a modern browser, you can run them on it. Below is […]
Another fun game: Pick Out
Greetings. This month, I developed another game as a web application (HTML5) that employs auto-scaling, sound, and responsiveness on all platforms that support a browser. That means, PC, tablets, smartphones, etc. You can use touch or mouse as inputs. It’s based on the simple and classic game concept where you get to pick an “odd […]
Ig Nobel Prize Winners: 2021
The winners of the 2021 Ig Nobel Prize are announced today. One of them caught my attention, which happens to be in the Economics category by Pavlo Blavatskyy for for discovering that the obesity of a country’s politicians may be a good indicator of that country’s corruption. Very interesting indeed and although it made me […]
Free custom icon based on my original painting: Oscar
In this post, I’m sharing an icon based off one of my original canvas paintings of Oscar fish. A snapshot of the painting is below (shown in smaller size than original): The original canvas is not for sale, however, a high-resolution, full-size digitized version is available as a NFT only on this official NFT exchange […]
Potential Sculpture Designs
Here’s a quick scratch pad note about a couple of shapes (one is hyperbolic paraboloid and another one has no name…will have to come up with an artificial one!)…playing with the equations a+b+c=bc and a+b+c=abc Their shapes are mesmerizing to me and in addition to them being artistic, cool, I also see practical uses of […]
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and my results
Some of you may have heard of Myers-Briggs “test” in your career or from friends. I believe the first time I took the evaluation was probably in late 90s to early 2000. I’ve recently retook it and, here, will share some of my self-discoveries. First, a very brief intro to MBTI:MBTI provides information on the […]